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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe what a racket they make in my room.
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
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Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.
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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
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A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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